Man Eating Tiger
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
A. Choose the correct options to complete the sentences.
1. The author was stalking a man-eating .............
- tiger
- lion
- leopard
- gorilla
Answer: tiger
2. A full-grown tiger can eat a .......... in two days.
- bear
- sambur
- goat
- rabbit
Answer: sambur
3. The author found the tiger ........... under a tree.
- eating
- sitting
- sleeping
- crouching
Answer: sleeping
4. The author used a .............. to kill the tiger.
- pistol
- knife
- sword
- rifle
Answer: rifle
ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE QUESTIONS
B. Tick (✓) the correct statements and cross (X) the incorrect ones. 1 Soft-footed animals are easy to track.
1. Soft-footed animals are easy to track. (X)
2. The grass plot was twenty feet square. (✓)
3. The tiger ran away after being shot. (X)
4. The author wanted to skin the tiger. (✓)
MATCHING TYPE QUESTIONS
C. Match the words given in column A with the words given in column B to form meaningful
| Column A | Column B |
|---|---|
| 1. Hard-footed animals | (a) to find a shady spot. |
| 2. The tiger had gone | (b) better dead than alive. |
| 3. the author regretted | (c) are easy to track |
| 4. The man-eating tiger was | (d) carrying an uncocked rifle. |
Answer:
- (c) are easy to track
- (a) to find a shady spot.
- (d) carrying an uncocked rifle
- (b) better dead than alive
VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
D. Answer each question in 35-40 words.
1. Which animal was tied up as bait for the tiger?
Answer: A not so fully grown buffalo was tied up as bait for the man-eating tiger. When Jim Corbett saw the animal's carcass he felt sure that the tiger had not gone far. He could also see some prints on the soft, wet earth around the kill.
2. What was the diameter of the tree that lay fallen?
Answer: The fallen tree lay north-south. The tree was about four feet in diameter. The root end of the tree was resting on the hillside, whereas the branch end was projecting out over the hillside.
3. How did the tiger react after being shot?
Answer: When the heavy bullet at short range went into the tiger's forehead not so much as a quiver went through his body. His tail remained stretched straight out; the hind legs were motionless and the nose pointed to heaven.
4. What were the villagers making sure by touching the dead tiger's limbs?
Answer: The villagers were satisfying themselves whether their assertion that the tiger had not been suffering from any old or crippling injuries was right or not. They also wanted to make sure that the man-eater, in fear of whom they had lived for so many years, was really dead.
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
E. Answer each question in 50-60 words.
1. What did the blades of grass tell the author?
Answer: When the author came upon the flat bit of ground, twenty feet square, and carpeted with a variety of short soft grass, he could make out the imprints of the tiger. When some blades of crushed grass sprang up it indicate that the tiger had been gone only a minute or so.
2. Why had the tiger left the grassy plot of ground?
Answer: The tiger after satiating his hunger had found a comfortable patch of ground and lain on it. But nine o'clock of a May morning in the Northern plains had made the heat unbearable and it had got up to find a shady place to rest.
3. What did the author do after killing the tiger?
Answer: After killing the tiger, the author felt breathless due possibly as much to fear as to excitement and a desire for a little rest. He sat down on the fallen tree and lit a cigarette that he had denied himself from the day his throat had gone bad, and allowed his thoughts to wander.
4. Why did the villagers want the women and children to see the dead tiger?
Answer: The villagers wanted the women and children to see the dead tiger, so that they could satisfy themselves that the man-eater, in fear of whom they had lived for so many years was really dead.
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
F. Answer each question in 60-80 words.
1. How does the author describe the tiger on fully seeing it?
Answer: The tiger was not crouching, he had stretched his hind legs and was resting them on the upper branches of an oak sapling. His belly was heaving in a regular way indicating that he was sleeping. The back of his head was resting on the edge of the grass plot, his eyes were fast shut and his nose was pointing to heaven.
2. What three arguments did the author give in support of his action?
Answer: The writer felt remorse on killing an animal in his sleep. He felt it was not fair to the animal. In order to convince himself that he had done the right thing, he presented three arguments.
(a) the tiger was a man-eater that was better dead than alive
(b) therefore it made no difference whether he was awake or asleep when killed, and
(c) that had he walked away from the sleeping animal, he would have been morally responsible for the death of all the human beings he killed thereafter.
3. Does the author regret killing the tiger? Why?
Answer: The author regretted killing the sleeping tiger. The regret remains through fear of the consequences to himself or fear of losing the only chance he might ever get, or possibly a combination of the two, the writer did not awaken the sleeping animal and give him a sporting chance.
